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The Alba Madonna
c. 1510 · oil on panel transferred to canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
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All editionsAbout this painting
A thin cross of reed stands between two children, and both have hold of it. The Christ Child takes it from the infant Baptist while Our Lady, a book in her hand, turns her eyes to it; the Galleria Borghese, cataloguing a period copy, calls that grasp a clear reference to the destiny of the Passion. She sits on the grass, not on a throne, and the National Gallery of Art's curator says it plainly: not the queen of heaven, but a humble woman sitting on the ground. Her robes are a Roman matron's, and her sandal is copied from the Apollo Belvedere. The Gallery reads the dandelions around her as the bitterness of the Passion. No patron is known for it. She sits among them, in the grass.
Sources: date, medium, accession 1937.1.24, and the curator's reading: not the queen of heaven but a humble woman sitting on the ground · the Child's grasp of the cross as a reference to the destiny of the Passion — catalogued on the period copy · the robes of a Roman matron and the sandal taken from the Apollo Belvedere · Carol Plazzotta and Tom Henry, National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, vol. 4: Raphael (London: The National Gallery, 2022), which names no patron; the NGA record names none either · National Gallery of Art, Washington, collection highlight: Raphael, 'The Alba Madonna'.